Leading Off:
• FL-Gov: Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democrat Charlie Crist are close in most polls, but you wouldn't know it from this Republican Party of Florida ad.
The spot features Crist being asked about donations he received from strip club owners, with Crist saying he won't return it. The commercial features text describing how one of those donations was from the owner of the "Cheetah," which was "investigated for drug dealing and illegal prostitution." The spot then describes how strip clubs are often used for sex trafficking. The whole spot feels pretty desperate, tying Crist to a very horrible crime very tangentially.
Crist has two spots (here and here). The first attacks Scott for using taxpayer money to upgrade the governor's mansion at the same time he was cutting education. The second portrays Scott as an insensitive ally of the rich.
Senate:
• AK-Sen: Put Alaska First once again ties Republican Dan Sullivan to out-of-state interests.
• AR-Sen: Four ads from Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor (here, here, here, and here), and one from Republican Tom Cotton.
• CO-Sen: The DSCC features a doctor accusing Republican Cory Gardner of trying to outlaw abortion and lying about it. NextGen Climate and People For the American Way also run a joint Spanish ad for the Democrats.
• GA-Sen: Republican David Perdue and Ending Spending (here and here) continue to argue a vote for Democrat Michelle Nunn is a vote for Obama. The Ending Spending Buy is for $1,314,000; this late in the game, that kind of money doesn't buy as many ads as it once did.
• IA-Sen: Republican Joni Ernst (here and here) highlights her military career, and features Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley vouching for her. On the other side, the DSCC continues to go after Enrst on Social Security, running the type of ad all Democratic groups should have been running since Ernst won the nomination in early June.
• KY-Sen: Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (here and here).
• LA-Sen: Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and the DSCC.
• NC-Sen: For the GOP, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce rolls out country music star Randy Owen, while the NRSC uses Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan's words against her to portray her as a partisan. Grow NC Strong also spends $464,000 for the Republicans.
• NH-Sen: Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen goes positive, while the DSCC hits Republican Scott Brown on Medicare. For the GOP, B-PAC spends $125,000 while Ending Spending lays down $1,384,000.
• SD-Sen: Mayday PAC praises Democrat Rick Weiland as a champion of the middle class.
• AFRS: Pro-Democratic expenditures from Americans for Responsible Solutions (here and here).
• NextGen Climate: Pro-Democratic expenditures (here and here).
Gubernatorial:
• AZ-Gov: Dueling ads from Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal. Duval's spot stars longtime television personality Hugh Downs.
• CO-Gov: The RGA's spot stars Dennis O'Connor, whose daughter was murdered by Nathan Dunlap. O'Connor criticizes Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper for considering a reprieve for Dunlap's death sentence. O'Connor ends the ad by calling Hickenlooper "a coward who doesn’t deserve to be in office."
• CT-Gov: Republican Tom Foley.
• GA-Gov: Democrat Jason Carter.
• HI-Gov: The RGA recently released a poll showing Republican Duke Aiona only 3 points down, and it looks like they really still think they can pull him across the finish line. The RGA's new spot continues to go after Democrat David Ige on taxes, accusing him of wanting to hike taxes on pensions. Aiona's own spot touts his economic plan.
• ID-Gov: Wow, the RGA is still spending here this late in the race. The spot is a pretty generic attack on Democrat A.J. Balukoff, with the narrator arguing he's a liberal. Balukoff voted for Romeny, but that's a minor detail to the RGA.
• IL-Gov: Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn features a man named David Thompson, who moved his wife Carolyn Rose to a nursing home owned by Republican Bruce Rauner. Thompson describes how his wife was neglected in the home, with the narrator accusing the company's policies of playing a role in her death.
• ME-Gov: Democrat Mike Michaud features several voters who said they backed independent Eliot Cutler in 2010 declaring they're backing Michaud this time. Cutler came close to beating Republican Gov. Paul LePage that year but this time around he's been taking left-leaning voters Michaud needs.
• WI-Gov: Greater Wisconsin continues to go after Republican Scott Walker.
House:
• AR-04: Republican Bruce Westerman.
• AZ-02: Americans for Responsible Solutions for Team Blue.
• CA-33: The heavily Democratic 33rd District hasn't been on many people's radar's, but a group called American Alliance is spending $245,000 for the GOP. Last week another group spent a comparable amount here. It's hard to see Democrats losing this 61-37 Obama seat even in the worst of years though.
• CA-36: Democratic Rep. Raul Ruiz.
• CO-06: Republican Rep. Mike Coffman and Democrat Andrew Romanoff.
• FL-02: Republican Rep. Steve Southerland invokes the border crisis, terorrism, and Ebola, arguing he can protect the country and Obama and Democratic opponent Gwen Graham can't. Of course all these problems are happening while Southerland was in office, but the audience isn't supposed to think about that. The Congressional Leadership Fund also airs the trillionth ad linking Graham to Obamacare.
• IA-01: The NRCC is the latest group to get involved in a race Democrats thought they had control of until recently. The spot accuses Democrat Pat Murphy of being angry and a wasteful spender.
• IA-02: The DCCC recently started spending to protect Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack, and the GOP smells a pickup opportunity here. The NRCC's spot hits Loebsack on wasteful spending, while voting to keep his congressional perks. It's not the most hard-hitting stuff, but this 56-43 Obama seat shouldn't be in danger at all.
• IA-03: Democrat Staci Appel.
• IL-10: American Unity PAC for the GOP.
• IL-12: The New Prosperity Foundation spends another $140,000 for the GOP.
• MN-08: Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan and Republican Stewart Mills.
• NH-01: Mayday PAC ties Republican Frank Guinta to special interests. Guinta meanwhile defends his finances while arguing that Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter only cares about herself. The NRCC also highlights Guinta's career as mayor of Manchester, while suspiciously saying nothing about his time in the House.
• DCCC: Democratic expenditures.